Wordpress websites in a localhost?

[archkre]

Do you guys create your wordpress websites in a localhost like Wampserver or directly online ?
Which is your workflow?
Thanks

[ElectricChili]

I usually develop new sites with a local installation of wordpress using xampp. It's a good way to work out the bugs while not having to be connected to the internet.

Rich Scherlitz

ps. I have a tutorial on how to do this at http://sharperblog.com/2009/03/local...-of-wordpress/

[DaveLloyd]

It depends on the complexity of the site for me.

If it is a simple site I go straight to the server, but for more complex Joomla sites, I use WampServer 2.0

Dave

[7_8_shortcuts]

Originally Posted by archkre

Do you guys create your wordpress websites in a localhost like Wampserver or directly online ?
Which is your workflow?
Thanks

Usually for installations that need a bit more customization I first install locally on my computer (I am on a Mac and use the built in Apache server).

Why...?

Even if I am lazy as anything... I made the effort to briefly calculate ONCE that installing things online and making changes afterwards uses up soooooo much more time, than if you install locally and tweak things that way first.

I would say... If you spend more than one hour tweaking something, I would install locally and then online only when you're ready.

Even if I am lazy... I have learnt to kick my lazy butt once in the beginning of a project and make the little effort to install locally... then I always thank myself for doing so later :-)

Warning: sometimes your local server may not behave the same way as your online server... You'll have some down moments initially and probably seeing some PHP scripts not working correctly (although they should)... This has to do mostly with passing variables dynamically to other pages like "file.php?name=boris&city=ny"...

[archkre]

I am creating my website in localhost at Wampserver, everything was running pretty smooth, but only the front page works, when I try to go somewhere else this error appears:
"Not Found the requested URL/wordpress/(whatever)/was not found on this server"

On the other hand there are several tutorials on how to set up a wordpress site in a localhost, but I can't find one on " moving from the local site to the web host".

Any idea if I can use Wp-cloner in the local host?
Thank you

[ElectricChili]

Originally Posted by archkre

I am creating my website in localhost at Wampserver, everything was running pretty smooth, but only the front page works, when I try to go somewhere else this error appears:
"Not Found the requested URL/wordpress/(whatever)/was not found on this server"

On the other hand there are several tutorials on how to set up a wordpress site in a localhost, but I can't find one on " moving from the local site to the web host".

Any idea if I can use Wp-cloner in the local host?
Thank you

I usually install normally on the server and ftp up the theme and the plugins from my local installation. I don't try to bring the whole thing. Just the portable stuff.

Rich Scherlitz

[archkre]

Hey Rich : Could you elaborate that , please?

And what about the content of SQL created in Localhost, do you export/import in web host?

Any idea about the error I am having?
Thank you

[ElectricChili]

I'm not familiar with Wampserver so I don't know how much I can help. Does it have a MySql database that WP can use?

I don't post content on the local installation so there's no MySql data to upload. If you did, I suppose you could intall a database backup plugin on your local install and then back it up to a .CSV file that you can import through your phpmyadmin on your web server install.

Rich Scherlitz

[nichewebstrategies]

If you are doing localhost Wordpress install and setup, you most certainly want to make sure that you are creating your Wordpress installations with your REAL domain name.

So, if you are creating new Wordpress install and the domain name is going to be topwidgetreviews.com, then you need to use that domain name in the Wordpress install process.

How do you do it? In Windows, you will need to add an entry for this domain name in your Hosts file located in the Windows->System32->Drivers->etc folder.

In this case you entry would look like so:

127.0.0.1 topwidgetreviews.com

When you enter this domain name in your browser, you will be redirected to the localhost address, thus allowing you to setup your blog using the REAL domain name.

Just make sure that when you are done and ready to move to your real hosting account you delete or comment out that line or you will always be redirected to the localhost version of the site.

I didn't see this discussed anywhere, so hopefully you found this tidbit useful.

-Brad

[archkre]

The error goes on despite those 127.0.0.1 changes!
"Not Found

The requested URL /wordpress/page/2/ was not found on this server."
Any ideas, please?